[mythtvnz] Slightly OT - which new TV

[Steve Hodge]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 13:47, <criggie at criggie.dyndns.org> wrote:

> On 26/03/11 12:53, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>
> What I would really like is for TVs to be available that do not bother
> > to have speakers, or even tuners, as both are really unnecessary when
> > you are using MythTV and I hate having to pay for them.
>
> They exist - we call them monitors :)
>

Unfortunately they don't come in 40+" varieties. And in many ways monitors
have been replaced by TVs on computers, which is not a good thing. There
aren't many monitors with resolutions above 1080p, those that exist are very
pricey. Pixel size seems to be stuck at no more than 110ppi - my phone has a
300ppi screen and I have a 12 year old CRT that's 120ppi. It's stuck because
TVs don't need higher resolutions. And I may be in the minority here, but I
much prefer 4:3 for monitors - I just don't see any benefit to the
widescreen format for anything but video and some games. For anything
involving reading vertical space is far more important than horiztonal space
yet 4:3 monitors are getting rare. All because the panel manufacturers want
to focus on TVs.

I guess things might improve when TV takes the next step up in resolution to
4K or 2540p or whatever. Which will probably happen in about 3-5 years once
3D has lost it's selling power.

Cheers,
Steve
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